| 1. | The library was the only room in that house which was not quite as ________ as the other rooms. |
| a. | | prescient |
| b. | | aesthetic |
| c. | | clairvoyant |
| d. | | chalcolithic |
| e. | | domineering
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| 2. | A large number of students in half-truth are _________ by the personal beliefs, sectarian concerns and folk _________ of teachers. |
| a. | | flummoxed . . aberration |
| b. | | overridden . . lore |
| c. | | liberated . . legacy |
| d. | | mitigated . . bias |
| e. | | underpinned . . pedagogy
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| 3. | Paula enjoyed the simple pleasure of cooking, as it was a brief ________ that __________ her mind. |
| a. | | hiatus . . soothed |
| b. | | sojourn . . refreshed |
| c. | | chore . . engulfed |
| d. | | respite . . swayed |
| e. | | tryst . . embalmed
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| 4. | The account given by the witness was ________ and __________ enough to nail the don. |
| a. | | cogent . . good |
| b. | | fluent . . convincing |
| c. | | judicious . . true |
| d. | | cognizable . . dependable |
| e. | | factitious . . facetious
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| 5. | The word __________ is the same as __________. |
| a. | | criticism . . review |
| b. | | cryptic . . elucidated |
| c. | | epitome . . picture |
| d. | | cushioned . . cosseted |
| e. | | ethnic . . national
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| 6. | In contemporary times, when science has _________ time and space, values are becoming more and more ___________. |
| a. | | transcended . . objective |
| b. | | annihilated . . pervasive |
| c. | | embraced . . narcissistic |
| d. | | elevated . . redundant |
| e. | | inflated . . corrosive
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| 7. | His ________ was a joke to many, a source of unease to an equal number and at times, the bane of his existence but _________ against his search for justice. |
| a. | | impertinence . . countervailing |
| b. | | cliché . . innocuous |
| c. | | wrath . . bulwark |
| d. | | parsimony . . indispensable |
| e. | | ineptitude . . expedient
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| 8. | A ________ world would _________ us of much complexity. |
| a. | | singular . . repudiate |
| b. | | polarized . . yoke |
| c. | | pluralistic . . purge |
| d. | | paradoxical . . fleece |
| e. | | diabolical . . concur
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| 9. | _________ can be taken to mean nearly the same as _________. |
| a. | | machinations . . scheming |
| b. | | austerity . . ostentation |
| c. | | mechanization . . revolution |
| d. | | imitated . . plagiarized |
| e. | | supporter . . promoter
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| 10. | For the annual service, the Classics Department magically transformed the ________ spot into a Tercentenary Theater. |
| a. | | proscenium |
| b. | | torrid |
| c. | | arid |
| d. | | sylvan |
| e. | | derelict
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| 11. | For the Senior Week, the university arranged a series of assorted ceremonies as a kind of anodyne for the trauma of ____________. |
| a. | | symbiotic arrangement |
| b. | | symbolic rebirth |
| c. | | configuration |
| d. | | juvenile delinquency |
| e. | | orientation
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| 12. | They, literally, started their professional lives in the __________ of the __________ zone. |
| a. | | culmination . . terrestrial |
| b. | | ignominy . . twilight |
| c. | | zenith . . celestial |
| d. | | sycophancy . . Hellenistic |
| e. | | astuteness . . critical
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